Has Nicolas Pope, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $59,064 in general payments to Nicolas Pope, MD across 156 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Nicolas Pope, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Nicolas Pope, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Nicolas Pope, MD

Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1154646479

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AstraZeneca accounts for 65.4% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $42,841 and has fallen 91.1% since, to $3,832 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$59,064in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 156 payments — averaging $378.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AstraZeneca$39K
Abbott$9K
Edwards Lifesciences$4K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Intuitive Surgical$1K
Medtronic$944
plus $4K from 17 others

$12,148in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $12,148 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

AstraZeneca$12K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$28,30048%
Grants$5241%
Travel & lodging$20,52135%
Food & beverage$9,71916%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
AstraZeneca	36	$38,625
Abbott	19	$8,775
Edwards Lifesciences	22	$3,746
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	12	$1,806
Intuitive Surgical	7	$1,128
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$944
Atricure, Inc.	24	$821
Baxter Healthcare	5	$598
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.	3	$344
Zimmer Biomet	2	$269
Boston Scientific	4	$257
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$203
Smith+Nephew	2	$197
Clearflow Inc.	1	$192
Jenavalve Technology, Inc.	1	$179
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$178
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$178
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$145
Avanos Medical	2	$136
Philips North America LLC	1	$119
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$102
Abiomed	1	$89
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$33

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$59,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$205,951

Medicare patients

228

Services billed

436

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Other surgery in Charleston

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Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
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Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
David McCabeCharleston$15K
Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
John ScottGreenville$242K
Jason CundiffGreenville$235K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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